Meaning
A gorilla, a large and powerful primate. Often used to represent the animal itself, wildlife, or trips to the zoo.
Category: Animals & Nature
🦍gorilla
🦍 gorilla belongs to Animals & Nature. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:gorilla:
Keywords
animalgorilla
What does 🦍 gorilla mean?
The gorilla emoji depicts the great ape of the same name. It is typically used in a literal sense when discussing wildlife, primates, or visits to the zoo. Depending on context, it can also represent conservation efforts related to endangered species.
Often used for
- Talking about gorillas or primates
- Discussing wildlife or endangered species
- Sharing photos from a zoo or safari
- Referencing movies or media featuring gorillas
Tone: Because comparing humans to apes has a long, racist history, this emoji should generally be kept literal to describe the animal itself rather than used as a metaphor for human strength or behavior.
Illustrative message examples with 🦍
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- look at the baby 🦍 it's so cute
- watching a documentary about silverbacks 🦍
- we saw the gorillas at the zoo today 🦍
- did you know gorillas share 98% of our dna 🦍
- donating to wildlife conservation this month 🦍
Combos, text art & scenes with 🦍
How 🦍 gorilla looks
Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.
OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.
🦍 gorilla codes for developers
Every format below produces 🦍 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | 🦍 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1F98D | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦍 | |
| HTML (hex) | 🦍 | |
| CSS | \1F98D | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F98D} | |
| JSON | \uD83E\uDD8D | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A6%8D | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :gorilla: |
🦍 in other languages
SpanishgorilaFrenchgorilleGermanGorillaItaliangorillaPortuguesegorilaRussianгориллаJapaneseゴリラKorean고릴라Chinese大猩猩LithuaniangorilaPolishgoryl
Source: Unicode CLDR